About This Event

The US election, COVID-19 pandemic, and climate-related crises are examples of evolving market conditions that have a material impact on the enterprise.

Tyson Foods is an example of an enterprise that is changing the way they predict, influence, and respond to market conditions with data.

Join us to learn how the Insights & Analytics team at Tyson Foods makes insight-driven decisions related to changing customer behavior by creating a shared data model accessible to business users across the organization.

Learn how Tyson is able to:

  • Create and leverage a shared data model with dimensions, hierarchies, and measures
  • Accelerate data-driven decision-making to adapt to changing markets
  • Continuously improve the speed of data velocity and delivery
  • Ensure consistent KPI reporting across the business
  • Realize the significant cost benefits of leveraging a virtual data model

Speakers: 

CHAD WAHLQUIST
Director of Data Strategy and Technology, Tyson Foods

Chad has 13 years of experience in building large-scale enterprise systems and now leads a team solely focused on bringing technology that is not only new to Tyson Foods but new to the marketplace. Chad is one of the founding executive board members for the UofA Blockchain COE. His experience in advanced technology ranges from AI/ML, robotics, drones, blockchain and deep learning.

DAVE MARIANI
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, AtScale

Dave is one of the co-founders of AtScale and is the Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to AtScale, he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.